Stocking Styles

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 10, 27 January 1937, Page 14

Stocking Styles

Lotest British Jrends gTXKIKINGS saies in the West End of London increased by just 25 per cer.t. last summer, Two years ago talk of "tanned, golden-brown legs" brought about the biggest slump in stocidngs since anklelength evening dresses, Now , women are wearing golden brown silk stockings. Fashion, too, is beginmng to ■ realise that the athletic strain whioh brought women in shirts, ehorts, and down-covered legs to the sea fronts lacks the attraction of feminjne modesty. Manufacturers have risen to the occasion. In colour, range, and style, stockings show a new Tariety, greater imagination. A new British weaving process now produces hardwearing stockings of gossamer fineness. As tough as their cotton ancestors, these stocidngs produce an attractive bare-leg effeet while covering a multi- ' tude of skins — and sins. For dieters there is the llimming stocking, shaded at the ankle and calf, designed to give line to a hockey leg without the agony of starvation, or ihe ungainliness of fat, flabby bare legs. Seamless stockings in natural browns have also ■old like hot eakes. For the most part, women are prepared to acknowledge that 'a tailored sfcock- —

***5J " Ot JJJ.g£JLL vlUUJt and neat square . heel, is a great attraction than a rain-splashed leg. Women Police. * More than HoO women a day, ineluding many holding university degrees, have applied to join the London Metropolitan Police Force since Scotland Yard advertised for recruits recently.